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Hi! I have a recipe for a pollen substitute that calls for brewers yeast. I live on Cape Cod, which is a little Mayberry-esque in terms of hard-to-find items. We don't have any beer-brewing supply places around. I looked online for brewer's yeast, and have found mostly vitamin places that have it in tablets. Am I on the right track? Is there more than one type? Help!

some of the supply outfits have premixed recipes. Mann Lake has BEEPRO, B&B has VitaBee and Dadants have something else. We use BEEPRO and mix it with 20% granulated sugar and 30% corn syrup. Sometimes it takes a little extra corn syrup to get it to mix up. We make this into patties about three quaters of a pound. They tend to dry out so we put them in sandwich bags and then slit them several times wiht a razor blade before placing them on the top bars. I learned the sasndwich bag trick from Allen Dick. It works great.

I have organic soy flour already - the recipe I have calls for 3 parts soy flour, 1 part pollen or brewers yeast, and 2 parts table sugar.
I suppose if I can't find the B.Y. I will mix up the flour and the sugar.
Thanks for the bee pro info!

Do you have any health food stores there?
Or even a health food section in a grocery store, or possibly a co-op? Any of these will probably have brewer's yeast, if you decide you need it. Ask where you got the organic soy flour.
Michelle

This is not directly related to a recipe. Here goes, Is there a problem feeding Bee-Pro during a honey flow? The reason that I ask is we have a short period between honey flows. The poplar honeyfl0w stops and a period of time elapses until we have the sourwood honeyflow. I was wondering if it would be advisable to feed Bee-PRO during the end of the Poplar Honeyflow to build an even larger workforce for the upcoming Sourwood flow?

Any comments would be appreciated..

Thesurveyor

[This message has been edited by thesurveyor (edited April 09, 2003).]